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Ilrrnn JAMES S. COOHRAN, OF PHILAPELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO ANDREW GOCIIRAN, OF SAME PLACE.

CATTLE-FOOD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 610,258, dated September 6, 1898. Application filed November 17,1897. Serial No. 658,847. (N specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES S. COCHRAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Food for Cattle, 850., Which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification.

I11 carrying out my invention I take sugarcane after all the sugar has been extracted then commonly known as bagasse. I then pass the same through a pickering-machine,

' and next bolt it and subject it to an air-draft,

which separates the pith from the fibrous part of the cane or bagasse, which latter thus being divested of pith makes a nutritious food for cattle, &c., which may be used as a substitute for hay, or it may be ground and mixed with a binder, such as molasses or JAMES S. OOCHRAN.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, RoBr. AITON. 

